The act of having a relative or someone close to you in a movie usually turns heads since a lot of people will be quick to comment that the individual only got the role because of their relative or because the actor wouldn’t be budged when it came to including the individual in the movie. That’s more or less true when it comes to Charles Bronson, who was notorious for having his wife in the movies with him on a constant basis. Both Jill Ireland, his second wife, and Kim Weeks, his third wife, were in the movies with him
The Reason Charles Bronson’s Wives Were in His Movies...
The Reason Charles Bronson’s Wives Were in His Movies...
- 8/28/2020
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Bronson’s Loose Again!: On the Set with Charles Bronson is author Paul Talbot’s all-new companion volume to his acclaimed Bronson’s Loose!: The Making of the ‘Death Wish’ Films. His new book reveals more information on the Death Wish series and also details the complex histories behind eighteen other Charles Bronson movies. Documented herein are fascinating tales behind some of the finest Bronson films of the mid-1970s (including Hard Times and From Noon Till Three); his big-budget independent epics Love And Bullets and Cabo Blanco; his lesser-known, underrated dramas Borderline and Act Of Vengeance; his notorious sleaze/action Cannon Films classics of the 80s (including 10 To Midnight, Murphy’S Law and Kinjite: Forbidden Sunjects); the numerous unmade projects he was attached to; and his TV movies of the 90s (including The Sea Wolf). Exhaustively researched, the book features over three dozen exclusive, candid interviews including...
- 6/27/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Harriett Tendler was 18, the only child of a widowed Jewish farmer, when she enrolled at the Bessie V. Hicks School of Stage, Screen, and Radio in Philadelphia in 1947. It was there she fell in love with Charles Buchinsky, a fellow student eight years her senior. Charles was part of a large Lithuanian family from an impoverished coal mining town in Pennsylvania. He had served in WWII as a tail gunner and was using the GI bill to study art and acting. Harriett and Charles were married in 1949 and two years later, Charles was cast in his first film. In 1953 he changed his last name to Bronson and found work as a solid character actor with a rugged face, muscular physique and everyman ethnicity that kept him busy in supporting roles as indians, convicts, cowboys, boxers, and gangsters. Life was good for the Bronsons and they had a daughter and then a son.
- 1/19/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Death Wish star Charles Bronson's family are embroiled in a bitter fight over his $48 million will. The grieving family poured into and out of Bronson's lawyer's office after being summoned to hear the late actor's bequests this week. Third wife Kim Weeks was left his $8 million Malibu, California home as well as $1.6 million cash, but was upset her husband - who died last month of pneumonia - had not left her his $4.8 million beach house and ranch in Vermont. Son Tony Brosnan was furious his father had left so much to his widow though, because she had reportedly banned everyone else from being by Charles's death bed. The Great Escape star further infuriated his relatives by leaving their bequeathed money in watertight trust funds, ensuring there would be no quick cash for anybody, according to Britain's Daily Star newspaper. A family source confides, "When they all walked out, Kim and the others were not talking to each other. There was a really bad atmosphere. The children got houses and other real estate holdings and millions in cash but they still weren't happy. They didn't want Kim to be well rewarded and they thinks he was. Kim was just as angry because she didn't get as much as she thought she should have done." Bronson's youngest child, daughter Zuleika, was the largest beneficiary of the will - she walked away with twice as much as anybody else.
- 9/23/2003
- WENN
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